Building Vocabulary (Primary/Middle)

Building Vocabulary 1
This title is an introduction to sounds, long and short vowel sounds, special sounds formed by various letter combinations, using the letter as a vowel, silent vowels, the schwa sound, various diphthongs, initial and final consonants, like and unlike letters, blends and digraphs, basic sight words, word families, root words, and compound words.

Building Vocabulary 2
Building Vocabulary 2 includes recognizing long and short vowel sounds in example words, review of long and short vowels, initial and final consonants, like and unlike letters and words, blends and digraphs, sight words, syllabification skills, dictionary skills, and special vocabularies.

Building Vocabulary 3
This title builds on the skills of recognizing long and short vowel sounds in example words, review of long and short vowels, initial and final consonants, like and unlike letters and words, blends and digraphs, sight words, syllabification skills, dictionary skills, special vocabulary words, base words, compound words, synonyms, and antonyms.

Building Vocabulary 4
Building Vocabulary 4 offers dictionary and thesaurus skills and usage, review of sight words, parts of speech, words in context, analogies, Latin and Greek roots, word recognition, words borrowed from names and places, core word vocabulary, words used in testing, grade-level review of long and short vowels, silent consonants, sounds, and combinations.

Building Vocabulary 5
This title includes identification and use of closed, open, and accented syllables, using a pronunciation key, synonyms, antonyms, words in context, words borrowed from names and places, foreign phrases, testtaking strategies, identifying the /y/ sound in words, vowel clusters, separate sounds for the consonants “c,” “g,” and “s,” and the sound of /ph/.

Building Vocabulary 6
Building Vocabulary 6 covers how to use a thesaurus, multiple meanings of words, strategies for solving types of word relationships, improving vocabulary through synonyms and antonyms, using context, prefixes, suffixes, and roots, foreign terms, short vowel sounds, diphthongs, initial consonants, and the /oo/ sound.

Building Vocabulary 7
This title includes identification and use of closed, open, and accented syllables, using a pronunciation key, synonyms, antonyms, words in context, words borrowed from names and places, foreign phrases, testtaking strategies, identifying the /y/ sound in words, vowel clusters, separate sounds for the consonants “c,” “g,” and “s,” and the sound of /ph/.

Building Vocabulary 8
Building Vocabulary 8 reviews how to use a dictionary, the origin of words, parts of speech, analogies, homonyms, homographs, strategies for critical recognition of small words in larger words, foreign terms, sounds made by /au/ and /aw/, initial and final consonants, and introduces words that use silent letters.